Webinar on tackling mental health stigma

With a survey revealing that more than one in five people have experienced discrimination at work due to mental health difficulties,1 St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) is hosting a free webinar at 12.30pm this Thursday, March 23, that will explore mental health and rights in the workplace, and what a workplace without mental health stigma would look like.

The webinar is being hosted as part of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services’ ongoing #NoStigma campaign, which launched in 2020 and aims to reframe mental health stigma and discrimination by showing the positive effect on life when they are not experienced. The campaign invites us to consider how life without stigma in the home, community and workplace benefits us all.

With a focus on exploring how we can promote workplaces without mental health stigma or discrimination, the webinar will inform employees, service users and their friends, family or carers, and employers of the supports that people with mental health difficulties might require upon their return, or entry, to the workplace. This will include, for example, the supports employers are obliged to provide to employees and the rights of people experiencing, or recovering from, mental health difficulties.

Speakers will include representatives from the Rehab Group, EmployAbility and the Open Doors Initiative. Three service users will also speak about their experience of returning to work following a period of mental ill-health.

If you have any questions about the webinar or accessibility requirements for attending, please email communications@stpatsmail.com.